What should we learn from the Metro?
What should we learn from the Metro?
In our beloved country seems to never win anything and cling to watch the final of the reality competition fashion and feel that maybe win something. But the truth is that on 27 March this year our meter was chosen as "Best of America " as the MetroAwards and this is not even the first prize you get. He had earlier won the 4th Best Metro in the World by CoMET ( Community of Meters) 2010 and the International Achievement Award (IAA ) , won the 2011 .
What is it about the Metro makes it to be among the highest standards of efficiency, coverage , safety, innovation and sustainability? Why does it seem so unreal to imagine that the portfolio has the same feasibility MOP ? The answers lie in two words: Planning and Reception .
One of the main problems of the organization of our country is due to the short presidential term. That is why , between utter the intention of a new project for the bank and actually realizing it may take decades or just not realized, this is how projects like Highway Vespucci East has over 15 years of discussion , about four presidential terms in have been reevaluated and re commissioned to turn, and now with the pronunciation of Chacao Bridge as clear electoral strategy , the discussion on the highway is even more distant.
The Santiago Metro has the same leaders, because although it is a corporation , its director is appointed by the President-elect as his ministers . However, the Santiago Metro if carried out effectively and prolonged . This is because behind the Metro system there is a Planning , and with this , rigorous studies and real alternatives.
The first intention of building something like the Metro we recognize by Quirós and Kelemen engineers and developed in 1944 as a system of railways surface through shafts of Alameda and Grand Avenue in document Study on Service collective mobilization of Santiago. This also proposed not only a transportation system , but specifying how it should be developed through the evaluation of priority sections . Then in 1965 , the Metropolitan Rapid Transit Commission of Greater Santiago , it redesigned the project is an underground system , which again was raised in a first stage and two-stage enabling construction. And also there were other proposals : an international consultancy with Japan in 1967 (Organization of Overseas Technical Cooperation ) and another with the French consortium BCEOM - SOFRETU CADE with the Chilean company in 1965. The latter was adopted during the government of Eduardo Frei Montalva and consisted of a network of 60 kilometers, with a projection of 90 kilometers in 1990.
This long-term planning , which considered different lines and with this, steps to build , consolidate the present and future of Metro regardless rotating directors, ministers and presidents , being by far one of the most successful and successful initiatives for citizenship , made in Chile (and won an " award" ) .
These were the first 10 steps lead to the subway still facing most of the Chilean project portfolio. However, it is increasing its distance , because although 60 Planning ' has sustained the system, Metro de Santiago has not kept out of the new companies and demands of today. In these times, when the citizen is an asset through new social platforms and virtual agent, the subway has integrated its planning reception citizen demand, high stocking communes rising as Independence , Puente Alto , Huechuraba etc. and of course, the Transantiago System . Now we find not only new lines drawn , but bidding projects concerning ride quality , and more than 600,000 passengers annually .
So will a last wake-up call : Please estimated Authorities , win the " Award Highway " , the " Award Park " , the " Commune Award" and all the " Award" to good planning , incorporating citizen participation, the study of the demands and not the candidacy , allow us to achieve .
